Reading Time: 4 minutes In my previous blogs, I discussed about the basics of akka-streams and materialization. Now let’s dig deeper into Graphs in Akka-Streams. Graphs Till now we know how to create a linear pipeline/linear graph. But in real life scenario we generally don’t have linear graphs to implement. The graphs can be complex. In Akka Streams computation graphs are written in a more graph-resembling DSL. It aims Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Reactive Streams”, whenever we come across these words, there are two things that come to our mind. The first is asynchronous stream processing and the second is non-blocking backpressure. In this blog, we are going to learn about the latter part. Understanding back pressure According to the English dictionary, back pressure means “Resistance or force opposing the desired flow of fluid through pipes”. To define Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes A few days earlier, in our project, we were using Spark streaming and initially, it worked like a charm. But as we were very close to completion of our use case, the unexpected occurred. Spark does have a lot of interesting features, but we had some more custom needs such as running a ton of varying jobs with different actors/flows. Also, we needed something which Continue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello everyone, Knoldus organized a session on 25th November 2017. The topic was “Guaranteed No Stress Baby Steps Using Akka Streams Part-II”. Many people attended and enjoyed the session. In this blog post, I am going to share the slides & video of the session. Slides:
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello everyone, Knoldus organized a session on 28th October 2017. The topic was “Guaranteed No Stress Baby Steps Using Akka Streams Part-I”. Many people attended and enjoyed the session. In this blog post, I am going to share the slides & video of the session. Slides:
